Security solutions optimized for the public sector

McAfee is a trusted partner for federal government agencies, state and local governments, and education providers, delivering industry-leading security solutions that help public sector entities develop strong cybersecurity defenses, manage security with limited resources, and maintain and prove compliance. We team with public sector clients to ensure that they have the latest security in place to protect them from endpoint to the cloud.

Intelligence

It starts with threat intelligence. From a network of more than a hundred million sensors, McAfee gathers a steady stream of threat data from around the world to populate and inform our real-time McAfee Global Threat Intelligence.

Visibility

You can’t protect what you don’t know about. McAfee solutions extend security visibility from your endpoints to the cloud, and oversee it with a common management platform, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO). See and manage global security policies with McAfee Policy Auditor, and get actionable threat analysis with our robust SIEM offering, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager.

Orchestration

Your security solutions need to work together, even if they are from multiple vendors. Through our integration fabric, OpenDXL, McAfee products can seamlessly connect with third-party products, sharing threat intelligence and driving automated responses to attacks.

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What keeps you up at night?

Threats are always evolving, but the landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. It’s no longer about just protecting endpoints and your traditional network. Instead you must dedicate your time to stopping malware from gaining access via new entry points, fighting new types of attackers, and meeting day-to-day operational demands. In fact, CIO Magazine lists cyberattacks from rogue nation-states, a greater demand for information that validates an organization’s readiness and ability to respond to threats, and IoT breaches as some of the top cybersecurity concerns for 2018. McAfee solutions for the public sector can help address your biggest pain points.

McAfee solutions extend visibility into all corners of your environment, including the cloud, and bring it together with centralized management and built-in reporting—key to documenting and proving compliance and passing audits.

Reduce operational risks by automating your responses to potential threats. McAfee puts defenses and remediation into motion, freeing your time-constrained staff to dedicate their time where it is needed the most.

You are moving to the cloud, but you need to do it safely with the proper visibility into activities on both public and private cloud platforms. McAfee solutions extend the essential visibility, threat protection, and data protection that you have on premises into the cloud.

Your biggest risk factor is likely within your enterprise. From employees who inadvertently download malware or expose confidential data, to intentional actions by disgruntled current or former employees, McAfee helps you contain insider threats and limit their impact.

What we offer

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM)

An effective CDM program identifies cybersecurity risks on an ongoing basis, prioritizes those risks based upon potential impact, and enables your staff to mitigate the most significant problems first.

How we do it

Solving our industry’s fragmentation is the driving force behind our open communications fabric—OpenDXL—which allows any organization to deploy cybersecurity technologies over a common protocol. OpenDXL allows one device in a cybersecurity environment to relay threat information to all others attached to the DXL. This takes threat intelligence sharing to the next level, giving you a smart, connected fabric of devices, available from multiple companies. You gain the advantages of an integrated infrastructure while still expanding innovation—even using your own talents to develop capabilities over the same fabric.

While orchestration is a theme that runs through every one of our innovations, solutions, and products, there are some that feature it front and center. Our high-performance, powerful security information and event management offering brings event, threat, and risk data together to provide strong security intelligence, rapid incident response, seamless log management, and compliance reporting—delivering the context required for adaptive security risk management.

In 2014, McAfee, Symantec, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks co-founded the industry's first Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA). While past industry efforts have been limited to the exchange of common malware samples, the CTA is designed to share more actionable threat intelligence openly between contributing members. This includes information on zero-day vulnerabilities, botnet command and control (C&C) server information, mobile threats, and indicators of compromise (IOCs). By working together, alliance participants deliver greater security for individual customers and organizations.

The Advanced Programs Group (APG) from McAfee specializes in investigating targeted intrusions performed by the most advanced threat groups. APG uses the intelligence gathered from McAfee® Global Threat Intelligence (McAfee GTI) capabilities, in conjunction with the experience of intelligence professionals, to provide actionable intelligence of developing threats, trends, and vectors.

Customer success stories

We’re proud the Army has selected our dynamic endpoint threat defense combined with automated indicator of compromise threat intelligence sharing enabled by the Data Exchange Layer, allowing the Army to protect against more threats, faster, and with fewer resources.— Ken Kartsen, vice president of federal sales at McAfee

McAfee announced it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to provide cloud-enabled endpoint defense and threat response capabilities and leverage the Data Exchange Layer (DXL).

We feel it is important to recognize that as part of the AWS shared responsibility model, it is up to us to ensure the security of our virtual networks. We leverage vNSP as a way to augment the security of native AWS capabilities. We are able to establish more flexible controls for protecting our own workloads, as well as providing custom-tailored solutions to our clients. — Tim Gonda, ECS security engineer and vNSP expert

McAfee’s selection for the DoD’s Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) program underscores the Pentagon’s strategic focus on security from the device all the way to the cloud and offers a streamlined path to acquire McAfee solutions. This new award builds on our track record with the DoD as the department transitions to the latest McAfee tools and technologies, and we look forward to working with our partners to continue meeting DoD’s evolving needs.— Alex Chapin, McAfee's executive director, DoD and Intelligence Community

State & local government

Education contracts

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McAfee Public Sector LLC hereby states that each end product to be delivered under this contract is a U.S.-made end product, or a designated country end product, as defined in the FAR clause 52.225-5 TRADE AGREEMENTS (Feb. 2016). Any Trade Agreements clauses other than 52.225-5 are not acceptable. Production point for product(s) submitted for this Solicitation is the United States.